Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

Running head: NURSING INFORMATICS 1 Electronic Health Record: The Impact on Nursing Informatics Peta-Gay Pinnock Dr. Gwen Morse November 26, 2016 NURSING INFORMATICS 2 Abstract One of the goals of the field of nursing informatics is working to improve the electronic health record system. Electronic Health Record (EHR) is simply just what the name implies. Patient health information that is stored electronically. Instead of a paper filing system, everything is located on an electronic database.…

called Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) in five gay men, living in Los Angeles (HSRA). This was the first case of what would be later known as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV/AIDS), now a widely spread disease. The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) protested outside the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on October 11, 1988, to change the drug approval process. Eight days later, the FDA announced new regulations to speed up the drug approval process; however, it has been 30 years…

The quantitative article picked is "Use of a Postfall Assessment Tool to Prevent Falls." (Gray-Miceli, Ratcliffe, & Johnson, 2012). The introduction describes the use of an assessment tool, to not only assess falls but that will be utilized for future falls. The review of the literature gives a brief summary of the importance of a before and after assessment of falls, test time limitations and the assessment tool used. The discussion of the methodology included the importance of stopping falls,…

Group 23 – ‘Super-Me’ Overall feedback You have identified an important and growing lifestyle trend in healthcare and health management. Given the budget cuts to the NHS in the UK and pressures on getting personal attention and care from Doctors and GP’s at an affordable cost, personal management of long term health conditions is a key concern of patients. The proposal is quite comprehensive, covering and providing a level of detail on all the major headings such as market opportunity, customer…

I gave insulin shots and performed Accu-Chek. I also got to document in the electronic health record. Influencing Factors Before going into clinical, I had went to the hospital the day prior to look up my client’s information, including; the lab values, vital signs, diagnoses, and medications to gather information to understand their disease…

downfall in school grades. The home health nurse must make the decision, of whether or not to tell the school nurse the reason the girls’ grades are slipping, or whether this is confidential information that she cannot share. The home health nurse will have to decide what the ethical dilemma is, what legal issues will need to be addressed, and how she will have to proceed with her decision. The main ethical dilemma in this situation is whether or not the home health nurse should…

STUDY VARIABLES Predictor variables: The predictor variables were composed of a heterogeneous set of variables that were grouped into the 5 different categories: surgeon demographics, subject demographics, anesthesia risk factors,, procedure-related, and anesthetic medications. Surgeon demographic variables included age, sex, degree-status (single- or dually-qualified), board certification status (board-certified yes or no) and census region (midwest, northeast, south, west). Subject…

Introduction Hacking the Healthcare System Healthcare has the highest cyber-attacks in the industry. This is only growing. Nearly half of all health care organizations have reported criminal attacks that caused a breach in their systems (Goodman, 2015). These hackers are gaining access to the electronic health information. Identification, banking information, and pharmacies used are just some of the data that these online hackers are getting their hands on. This is costing over six billion…

Question 3 a) Public opinion is as important as the goals of any public organization due to the influence it has on managers and their abilities to deliver. Public opinion can either be positive or negative, but the managers have control over what type of opinion he/she creates about his/ her organization in the eyes of the public. Public opinion may have formal or informal authority that allows it to exert such influence. Formally, a public manager would seek a public opinion through a poll or…

access to these documents were controlled and monitored. This prevented breaches of security and confidentially, violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). According to the California Department of Health Care Services, HIPAA requires records to be protected and handled with confidentiality, in addition to other regulations about insurance, fraud, and electronic billing (2017). Most security breaches are non-intentional and usually committed by healthcare workers…